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Re: Git chokes on large file

From
Dale R. Worley <worley@alum.mit.edu>
Date
May 28, 2014, 18:47 UTC
Message-ID
<201405281847.s4SIlW5K027160@hobgoblin.ariadne.com>
In-Reply-To
<alpine.DEB.2.02.1405281121200.32611@nftneq.ynat.uz>
> From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
> Git was designed to track source code, there are warts that show up
> in the implementation when you use individual files >4GB

I'd expect that if you want to deal with files over 100k, you should assume that it doesn't all fit in memory.

Dale
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Message 7 of 49 in “Git chokes on large file”
  1. Dale R. WorleyMay 27, 2014
  2. Duy NguyenMay 28, 2014
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2014
  4. Dale R. WorleyMay 28, 2014
  5. Dale R. WorleyMay 28, 2014
  6. David LangMay 28, 2014
  7. Dale R. WorleyMay 28, 2014
  8. David LangMay 28, 2014
  9. Dale R. WorleyMay 29, 2014
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2014
  11. David LangMay 28, 2014
  12. 1/4 wrapper.c: introduce gentle xmallocz that does not die()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, May 29, 2014
  13. 2/4 fsck: do not die when not enough memory to examine a pack entryNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, May 29, 2014
  14. 3/4 diff.c: allow to pass more flags to diff_populate_filespecNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, May 29, 2014
  15. 4/4 diff: mark any file larger than core.bigfilethreshold binaryNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, May 29, 2014
  16. Thomas BraunJun 19, 2014
  17. Duy NguyenJun 23, 2014
  18. Thomas BraunJun 23, 2014
  19. 1/4 wrapper.c: introduce gentle xmallocz that does not die()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Jun 24, 2014
  20. 2/4 fsck: do not die when not enough memory to examine a pack entryNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Jun 24, 2014
  21. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2014
  22. Duy NguyenJun 29, 2014
  23. 3/4 diff.c: allow to pass more flags to diff_populate_filespecNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Jun 24, 2014
  24. 4/4 diff: mark any file larger than core.bigfilethreshold binaryNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Jun 24, 2014
  25. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2014
  26. Thomas BraunJun 27, 2014
  27. Duy NguyenJun 29, 2014
  28. 0/6 Large file improvementsNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 13, 2014
  29. 1/6 wrapper.c: introduce gentle xmalloc(z) that does not die()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 13, 2014
  30. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2014
  31. 2/6 sha1_file.c: do not die failing to malloc in unpack_compressed_entryNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 13, 2014
  32. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2014
  33. 3/6 unpack-objects: continue when fail to malloc due to large objectsNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 13, 2014
  34. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2014
  35. Duy NguyenAug 15, 2014
  36. 4/6 diff.c: allow to pass more flags to diff_populate_filespecNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 13, 2014
  37. 5/6 diff --stat: mark any file larger than core.bigfilethreshold binaryNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 13, 2014
  38. Eric SunshineAug 13, 2014
  39. 6/6 diff: shortcut for diff'ing two binary SHA-1 objectsNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 13, 2014
  40. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2014
  41. Duy NguyenAug 15, 2014
  42. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2014
  43. 0/5 Large file improvementsNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 16, 2014
  44. 1/5 wrapper.c: introduce gentle xmallocz that does not die()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 16, 2014
  45. 2/5 sha1_file.c: do not die failing to malloc in unpack_compressed_entryNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 16, 2014
  46. 3/5 diff.c: allow to pass more flags to diff_populate_filespecNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 16, 2014
  47. 4/5 diff --stat: mark any file larger than core.bigfilethreshold binaryNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 16, 2014
  48. 5/5 diff: shortcut for diff'ing two binary SHA-1 objectsNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 16, 2014
  49. Thomas BraunMay 28, 2014

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